Lead Yourself

Classes like Understanding the Bible or Leadership Essentials help you lead yourself. Our Discover Your Design Class helps you examine your personality, abilities, gifts, passions, and life experiences to learn how God can use you to make an impact in our world.

In Person Classes

Online Classes

Level One

Discover Your Design - Online

This class will help you explore five areas (spiritual gifts, heart passion, abilities, personality, experiences) so you can have a greater understanding of how God has designed you, so you can serve with purpose.

Leadership Essentials: Part 1 - Developing Your Leadership Potential - Online

Leadership starts with you leading yourself. Learn how you are a person of influence and what it means to grow as a leader. Discover the levels of leadership, how to climb the levels of leadership, and “the law of the lid” that prevents you from leading.  Participants will be provided with an assessment tool to determine his/her level of leadership.

Leadership Essentials: Part 2 - Foundations of Leadership - Online 

In part 2 of Leadership Essentials, we will begin learning the 7 key building blocks essential to growing and developing as a leader.

Leadership Health Check

You will be equipped with daily, weekly, and monthly or quarterly tools to help you gauge how you or your group/team is doing relationally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. The tools will guide you to determine the next steps to help you grow as a person and leader and create an action plan. 

Prayer: Praying with Power

A class on praying with Kingdom power, covering healing, spiritual gifts, and intercessory prayer. Includes hands-on training using a 5-step prayer model, resources for Scripture-based prayer, and preparation for serving on the Healing Prayer Team.

Prayer: Hearing from God

This training is based on the sermon series from Pastor Tom Pound on Hearing from God.

Understanding the Bible: Part 1 (Overview)

In Acts 8:31, the Ethiopian responded, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” This class focuses on helping you have a better understanding of God’s Word.  If you are new to faith in Jesus or just want to learn more about the Bible, this class will begin to unravel key elements of the Bible, including its structure, content, and core beliefs.  The Bible contains various genres such as history, poetry, prophecy, letters, and narratives, making it a diverse and multifaceted Book of books.  Grab a cup of coffee, relax, and begin to understand the best-selling book in history, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed worldwide.  

Understanding the Bible: Part 2 (Old Testament) 

If you are new to faith in Jesus or just want to learn more about the Bible, this class will help you better understand God’s Word.  Part 1 presented an overview of the entire Bible.  Part 2 will focus on the Old Testament, major themes, the structure, how to read the Old Testament, and why it is essential to the Christian faith.

Level 2

Healthy Leaders - Emotional Intelligence

This training will help leaders develop emotional intelligence by building awareness of their own emotions and those of others. Participants will learn four core skills to assess emotional health, understand how attitudes affect performance, and identify unhelpful feelings, behaviors, and thinking patterns in themselves and their teams.

The Road Back to You: Part 1 - Understanding Yourself

The Road Back to You. This unique class uses a tool and assessment to help you better understand how God has made you as it leads you to new places of spiritual discovery, how you relate to others, and how you can better serve those around you.

The Road Back to You: Part 2 - Relating to Others

If you are new to faith in Jesus or just want to learn more about the Bible, this class will help you better understand God’s Word.  Part 1 presented an overview of the entire Bible.  Part 2 will focus on the Old Testament, major themes, the structure, how to read the Old Testament, and why it is essential to the Christian faith.

Prayer: Walking With God

What does it look like to walk with God daily and through the seasons of life? How do you have a conversation with God?  How do you listen to God’s voice?  Learning to live in a relationship with God and following him closely can be the most life-changing habit we can adopt.  Yet most people have never been taught how to have a conversation with God.

Prayer: Enforcing the Kingdom

This class will focus on understanding who we are in Christ and how to pray with the power of the Kingdom to release miracles in your life and those around you.  The class will discuss the authority we are given in Christ, praying against what may be coming against us, and praying to release the power of His Kingdom to experience peace, healing, and restoration.  

Level 3

Strength-Based Leadership - Part 1: Discover Your Strengths

This class will help you better understand your natural talents to impact our world for God and how to surround yourself with others who complement your abilities.

Strength-Based Leadership - Part 2: Your Strength in Relationship to Others

This class goes beyond helping you discover your natural talents to positively impact our world for God and surround you with others who complement your abilities. Part 2 is about utilizing your strengths to lead in a positive manner rather than a destructive one.